Republican Senator Jason Schultz has been running a secret committee!

Madalyn Anderson shared a link.

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This morning Progress Iowa discovered "Republican Senator Jason Schultz has been running a secret committee, to help create Senate File 213 -- that's the bill which would strip away collective bargaining rights for more than 180,000 of Iowa's public workers. Before the bill was even filed for the public to see, Senator Schultz and his group of lawmakers -- who he refused to identify when challenged during debate -- had already decided what would be included, without any citizen input.

Time after time, Senator Schultz was asked who had input in Senate File 213, who was part of his secret discussions, and time after time he refused to tell his fellow Senators who was involved or how the process worked. Schultz has showed little interest in hearing from the public, or in clueing anyone in on the true motivation for this bill."

Please contact him. Tell him to stop working in secret to attack the rights of Iowa's public workers!
(712) 269-2178 jason.schultz@legis.iowa.gov.

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Kathy Kurtz shared a group.

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Why are corporations spending millions to crush unions? Guesses?

Chris Laursen

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Why are corporations spending millions to crush unions? Guesses?

Walter Reuther once said, " There’s a direct relationship between the ballot box and the bread box, and what the union fights for and wins at the bargaining table can be taken away in the legislative halls".

Unions empower workers and changes their lives through collective bargaining. A worker's right to be involved in the collective bargaining process is a major inconvenience to those who wish to exploit the working class for their own gain.

The definition of hypocrisy is when ALEC fueled Republicans claim to represent the values of middle class Iowans but yet seek to strip away the voice of 184,000 middle class, public sector employees at the bargaining table by disemboweling Iowa Code's Chpt.20 collective bargaining law.

Republicans know that the annual $21 million loss of revenue from corporate welfare has to be recovered somehow. Therefore, Republicans have to make cuts to fall within the budget. And screwing Iowa's public employees will help them achieve their objective. Unfortunately, it comes at the expense of the people who keep our state and communities functioning properly. Fortunately, labor is standing together and fighting back

A couple of weeks ago I wrote about this matter and said, 'Let them know we will show up en masse to protest at the capitol' . And that is exactly what thousands of angry and frustrated Iowans have done over the course of the last few days. They have blown the ringers off of the phones of Republican state legislators. And they have been racing to get employment contracts signed before this attack on public sector workers is passed. I feel amazed and inspired by the pushback from the people of our state. I hope all of them take this to heart and pushback in the voting booth, as well.

People equals power !

http://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/education/2017/02/15/schools-unions-race-sign-contracts-before-law-changes/97913630/